A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal
A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal
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A Bias for Action
How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time

Author: Sumantra Ghoshal, Heike Bruch

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/08/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In A Bias for Action, Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch reveal that only ten percent of managers act purposefully to get truly important work done. A Bias for Action shows that great managers produce results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own willpower through a powerful combination of energy and focus. Bruch and Ghoshal provide simple strategies for bolstering individual willpower and action-taking abilities, and explore ways to marshal the willpower of others to encourage collective action.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sonja on April 14, 2008

Was part of my MBA curriculum and surprisingly good for business lit......more

Goodreads review by Vince on March 08, 2012

The book begins in an almost Evangelistic vein. The authors posit that managers must move beyond motivation to willpower, which can only be engaged by experience a conversion-like experience of commitment to the role/task. While this didn't strike me as a particularly auspicious beginning, the book......more

Goodreads review by Abe on April 01, 2008

links action psychology (willpower, implementation intentions) to personal effectiveness in managerial/professional work......more